Watch This Game: Scribblenauts

Today's game to watch is a DS title by 5th cell (of "drawn to life" and Lock's Quest" fame) called "Scribblenauts". This is a seriously cool game, with possibilities that make me feel like my head will explode. It's a puzzle game in which you try to help a guy named Maxwell reach a star that is somewhere on the map. The catch is that to help him, you must write out the names of objects, and they will appear on the screen. For instance, one of the videos showed a star up in a tree that the player had to reach. To do so, he wrote out "football", and a football fell onto the map. Maxwell grabbed the football and used it to knock the star out of the tree. As an alternate method, it showed Maxwell using a ladder to climb into the tree, and another showed a beaver chopping down the tree to make the star easy. The games takes things a step further by allowing objects to interact with each other. One example I read in an interview by IGN imagined a scenario in which the player used a fishing-pole to hang a piece of meat in front of a velociraptor and ride it across the map.
Now, the big issue I can see with this game is how it will live up to it's potential. It's such a big concept, how could the developer possibly make it work well, and on DS at that? I personally feel pretty confident about it's potential. The game has been in development for a while and still has many months to go before it is released (it's scheduled for Q4 2009). At the time of the IGN interview they mentioned having already spent something like 3 months working on word associations alone.
This ought to at the very least be a very interesting game to play, and I for one couldn't be more excited about it. For more info on the game check out the official website,
http://www.scribblenauts.com/about.html
The IGN interview,
http://ds.ign.com/articles/936/936157p2.html
or the developer's website:
http://www.5thcell.com/